XML to JSON

x2j.zsh

# Convert XML to JSON
# 
# Usage:
#     x2j source_path [xsltjson parameters](https://github.com/bramstein/xsltjson#parameters)
#
# Reads from standard in if `source_path` set to `-`.

x2j() {
  local base
  base=src/github.com/bramstein/xsltjson

  # A checkout of https://github.com/bramstein/xsltjson must be available at `$base`.

  source_path=$1
  shift

  java -classpath $base/lib/saxon/saxon9.jar net.sf.saxon.Transform $source_path $base/conf/xml-to-json.xsl $@
}

Example usage:

curl -s 'http://api.sr.se/api/rss/pod/18976' | x2j - | jq .